Graduate.



No. 747,249. PATENTED DEC. 15, 1903.

C. H. SMITH.

GRADUATE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 27, 1903. '1

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Patented December 15, 1903.

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CHARLES H. SMITH, OF WOONSOGKET, RHODE ISLAND.

G ADUATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 747,249, dated December15, 1903.

Application filed July 2'7, 1903. Serial No. 167,196. (No modeh) T onwhom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. SMITH, a citizen of the United States,residing at Woonsocket, in the county of Providence and State of RhodeIsland, have invented new and useful Improvements in Graduates, of whichthe following is a specification.

My invention pertains to vessels, more particularly measuring vessels,such as apothecaries graduates; and it has for its object to provide avessel having a plurality of pouring-lips of different sizes.

With the foregoing in mind the invention will be fully understood fromthe following description and claim when taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is an elevation of a graduateconstituting one embodiment of my invention, and Fig. 2 a top plan Viewof the same.

Similar letters designate corresponding parts in both views of thedrawings, referring to which A is a graduate, of glass or other suitablematerial, provided with the ordinary or any other suitable graduatedscale a. The said graduate is peculiar in that it embodies threepouring-lips b c 01. These lips are of different sizes, as illustrated,and are arranged equidistant. In virtue of the graduate embodying threepouring-lips it will be observed that liquid may be poured from thegraduate into a bottle or other receptacle through the lip ad-' jacentto said bottle or receptacle, and thus the necessity of turning thegraduate precedent to pouring liquid therefrom is obviated, which is animportant advantage. Again, it will be observed that in the event of onelip being broken the graduate is not rendered useless, since liquid maybe poured therefrom through the remaining lips.

The provision of lips of difierent sizes is materially advantageous,because the large lip may be used when it is desired to quickly pourliquid into a bottle having alarge month, while the smaller lips may beused when liquid is to be poured into bottles having smaller mouths.

The three pouring-lips arranged equidistaut are materially advantageous,since when the graduate is grasped to pour liquid from one lip the otherlips rest above the thumb and forefinger, respectively, of the usershand and preclude the graduate slipping through the hand.

It will be appreciated from the foregoing that notwithstanding theadvantages which follow from the provision of the three pouring-lips mynovel graduate may be produced almost, if not quite, as cheaply as theordinary graduate; also, that the three equidistant pouring-lips add torather than detract from the appearance of the graduate and render thesame very convenient to handle.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is

As an improved article of manufacture, a graduate having threepouring-lips at its upper end; the said lips being of difierent sizes tofit different bottles, and being arranged equidistant whereby two of thelips will necessarily rest above the thumb and forefinger of the handwhen the graduate is grasped to pour liquid from the remaining lip.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

' CHARLES H. SMITH.

Witnesses:

BELLE SMITH,

Giro. W. SPAULDING.

